Man proposes after faking his death

I’m weird, I know that. And, perhaps, a bit crazy, but stories like this make me feel amazingly normal.

A Russian man was getting ready to propose to his girlfriend. But, before asking for her hand in marriage he did what any sane man would do to test his lady’s love — faked his death.

That’s right, he to hire a movie director, stuntmen, makeup artists, and even a script writer to stage a phony car crash. He then told his girlfriend, Irena Kolokov, to meet him at the crash site so she would be convinced he was dead, according to this story by The Stir.

According to that same story, Kolokov told The Sun:

We’d arranged to meet at a certain place but when I arrived there were mangled cars everywhere, ambulances, smoke, and carnage. Then when I saw Alexey covered in blood lying in the road, a paramedic told me he was dead and I just broke down in tears.

After things were straightened out and Kolokov realized Alexey Bykov was, in fact, alive, he proposed.